CFP: Contemporary Literature, Film and Theory (ongoing; collection)

Book proposals are invited for an exciting new series in *Literature, Filmand Theory *; proposals that are critically innovative, diverse insubject-matter, and challenging to existing critical frames are particularl=ywelcome, as are those that engender progressive debate in the fields ofliterature, film and theory. The series will also include author-specific,or film-maker-specific studies that deal with their subjects in criticallyoriginal ways. No single critical or cultural frame is preferred; ratherthe series reflects an aspiration to move beyond the limits of narrowcritical categories in order to explore how a variety of ways of readingintersect in fruitful ways.

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The following is a sample list of authors in whom we are particularlyinterested, although we welcome alternative suggestions:

Martin Amis

Margaret Atwood

John Banville

Sebastian Barry

Italo Calvino

Peter Carey

Caryl Churchill

Don deLillo

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romesh Gunesekera

Sunetra Gupta

David Hare

Aidan Higgins

Geoffrey Hill

Ted Hughes

Sarah Kane

Milan Kundera

Hanif Kureishi

Tony Kushner

Doris Lessing

Naguib Mahfouz

Derek Mahon

David Malouf

Ian McEwan

Medbh McGuckian

Vladimir Nabokov

Harold Pinter

Salman Rushdie

Tom Stoppard

Jeanette Winterson

The series also hopes to attract critical books on film-makers, particularl=ythose who have perpetually expanded the aesthetic horizons of their mediumand who have contributed to an ever-expanding filmic vocabulary.

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*Submissions*

Interested contributors can contact C.A. Murphy (contemporaryseries_at_gmail.com <contemproaryseries_at_gmail.com>) for furtherdetails, or submit a formal proposal, outlining the aims of the book andoffering a coherent chapter-by-chapter outline on the Cambria Press website=:http://www.cambriapress.com/cambria.cfm?template=3D5